At this year's Gathering of the Juggalos, the annual festival for fans of Detroit's Insane Clown Posse (you may be familiar with the infamous YouTube promotional machine), the group promised via tweet that they'd be making "the biggest announcement of our career." That announcement, made on Thursday to a tent holding over a thousand Juggalos and Juggalettes, was that Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope will be suing the FBI for classifying their fans — the very Juggalos and Juggalettes in attendance — as a "'loosely organized hybrid gang' in its National Gang Threat Assessment," according to Spin. "As Icp's lawyer, friend, and longtime Juggalo, Ryan Farris said, 'This is a family of love, this ain't no organized crime family.'"Many fans in attendance reacted to the announcement with cries of "family!" and tears of joy, because, along with challenging the FBI (with the help of their lawyer), Icp has set...
- 8/12/2012
- by Sarah Bennett
- Vulture
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